Tricks for giving medicine to children

Different tricks for giving medicine to children

It is unproductive to try to convince a two-year-old child about the advisability of having to take a medicine to cure his illness, so it will be useful to opt for those medicines that taste better and need a lower dosage, those that are easy to use. swallow or, even better, that they are administered by other routes than the mouth, such as suppositories.

Therefore, prior to explaining the recommendations or tricks to give medicine to children and babies, it is convenient to know the different routes of administration that our pediatrician can prescribe for treatment at home:

Routes of administration of the drug

• ORAL: it is the most common and safest. The main pharmaceutical forms that are administered orally are: tablets, capsules, dragees, syrup, solutions, suspensions and granules. The tablets should always be swallowed whole, unless they are scored, as the active ingredient would not be absorbed properly. The capsules are to be swallowed whole, except as directed by the package leaflet. To prepare an extemporaneous suspension, mineral water must be added up to the mark, but in two steps; first a little and shake and then complete with water up to the total measure. Effervescent tablets are named for their formulation with an acid and an alkali that react when dissolved in water, producing small bubbles of carbon dioxide that break the tablet and facilitate the dissolution of the active principle.